Translations:

Language: english

II .YOU (From: everyone must overcome his own biography)

The room is a large lampshade, softly lit
and at its heart you shine, the 1000 watt lightbulb
of my childhood
Your glass skin, heating to the touch of my eyes
is a bell, and inside it my pen once again moves wildly
like that bell's tongue,
like the tongue of an ancient mourner,
like a firefly larva inside a pear

Yael Globerman

יעל גלוברמן

was born in Tel Aviv to Holocaust survivor parents that came to Israel from Poland. Yael Globerman is the author of the novel Shaking the Tree (1996) and numerous short stories. Her debut book of poems, Alibi, was published by Helicon Press in 2000 and received the ACUM Award for Poetry and the PAIS Award. Her new poetry book, Same River Twice, was published in 2007 to great acclaim. She was awarded a Fulbright fellowhip in 2008.

She studied film at Tel Aviv University and has co-written a number of scripts and a play. She lives in Tel Aviv, teaches poetry workshops in the Creative Writing Programs at Haifa University and at Oranim College and serves on the editorial board of Helicon poetry journal.

Globerman translates a wide range of poetry from the English language such as W.H. Auden and Ann Sexton.

Her poems were translated to over ten languages and have been published in anthologies and magazines in Israel and abroad.